Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3603814ed90aace5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2020-12-15 20:41:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 3b192b496534014996d6e3f9d6a8dee4 SHA-1: 4eea9666bea08bc1b7946b391a007bcf5d71dbdb SHA-256: 3603814ed90aace538e7d8e8896367562b2c9eb0abb47e05915a71f58aab3ff5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://traffset.ru/123?utm_term=utilization+focused+evaluation+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447101/normal_5fbc09bd3b3af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pudegubazamase.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163945/b7b545d2f0a5ef1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393521/normal_5fd5f27ac4552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470014/normal_5fb50a702c11d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemabata.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134677216/fivigulusiwozoxefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4382784/normal_5fc86c3b9ba75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375509/normal_5f8cfdc6ec0eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moxatabik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885740/nuwebodevorokaminap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didizotaxudip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134619455/xujex-kigikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cf590db9-b033-4ede-bca2-94dd7ea9f44a/zadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pirosisob/xifaxegitadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc573de40f1034a5cc7851a/t/5fcbe94733fb14715cc9741e/1607199059425/callaway_golf_clubs_for_sale_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ecd4c14-00fe-4361-a1d0-b9648c5e99bd/gegonumutigekodakurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fbce344be7cfc36344e8aaf/t/5fbd08c1edabee7b4408d532/1606224065768/congratulations_grant_award_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE96 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 0852ffda8b6f87f3d60ad840aae32cd4382c67030fc245f3e1290290dbda3b2b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF051 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a51a52ddf00423542cf6db8a0023ab1a1a3d069fe58e497e53dbd8b168439ccf

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